How traditional Indigenous education helped four lost children survive 40 days in the Amazon jungle

Indigenous children are taught jungle lore and survival skills from an early age.

How traditional Indigenous education helped four lost children survive 40 days in the Amazon jungle

Indigenous children are taught jungle lore and survival skills from an early age.

Zelensky: Russia uses criminal mobilization to exterminate indigenous groups

“Criminal mobilization is used by Russia not only to prolong the suffering of people in Ukraine and to further destabilize the world, but also to physically exterminate men - representatives of indigenous peoples” who live in temporarily occupied...

Growing Number of Indigenous People in US Are Becoming Climate Migrants

Climate change is forcing tribal citizens to choose between staying on ancestral lands or moving to protect themselves.

The World Wants Greenland’s Minerals, but Greenlanders Are Wary

The island has rare elements needed for electric cars and wind turbines. But protesters are blocking one project, signaling that mining companies must tread carefully.

Intimate Portraits of Mexico’s Third-Gender Muxes

On the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in southern Mexico, a community of the local Zapotec people has long accepted — and celebrated — gender nonconformity.

Indigenous People of Brazil Fight for Their Future

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has given new license to the killing of Indigenous people in Brazil. Before he came to power in 2019, it wasn’t clear

Mexico City to Replace Columbus Statue With Indigenous Woman Monument

“We owe it to them. We exist because of them,” the mayor of Mexico City said in a news conference.

After Video of Abusive Nurse, Canada’s Indigenous Seek Health Overhaul

The abuse last year of an Indigenous woman in a Quebec hospital has prompted outrage and underlined the discrimination facing Canada’s Indigenous community.

The Reappearing Act of Puppies Puppies

The artist, who also goes by Jade Kuriki-Olivo, began her career as a solitary and mysterious figure. Now, with the support of her community, she’s become entirely herself.

Learning to Love Solitude (and Hate Oatmeal) on a 15,534-Mile Canadian Trek

For six years, the filmmaker Dianne Whelan hiked, biked, paddled, snowshoed and skied from the Atlantic to the Pacific and north to the Arctic. Here’s what she learned along the way.

Push to Return 116,000 Native American Remains Is Long-Awaited

Changes to U.S. regulations would seek to eliminate red tape that has delayed the return of burial remains and sacred objects held by museums and other institutions.

Patricia Marroquin Norby Is Bringing a Native Perspective to the Met

When the nation’s foremost museum got serious about the nation’s first inhabitants, they needed an Indigenous lodestar. They found one in Norby, its first curator of Native American art.

Canada’s Grim Legacy of Cultural Erasure, in Poignant School Photos

With the discovery of human remains on the grounds of residential schools, this history is now dominating the conversation in the country.

Inked Mummies, Linking Tattoo Artists With Their Ancestors

As scientists find more tattoos on preserved remains from Indigenous cultures, artists living today are drawing from them to revive cultural traditions.

The Maori Vision of Antarctica’s Future

Maori may have been first to reach Antarctica, in the seventh century. But the past matters less than what lies ahead, Indigenous scholars say.

After Bodies Are Found, Some Say Canada Day Is Nothing to Celebrate

Heeding calls from Indigenous people, some places have canceled plans to mark the holiday, after hundreds of children’s remains were discovered at former boarding schools for Indigenous children.

Training the Next Generation of Indigenous Data Scientists

A new workshop explores the right of Indigenous people to govern the collection, ownership and use of their biological and cultural data.

With Discovery of Unmarked Graves, Canada’s Indigenous Seek Reckoning

Two gruesome discoveries of what Indigenous groups say are the remains of hundreds of children have strengthened the groups’ resolve to hold the country accountable for a long-hidden brutal history.